The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

There is a phrase that is often used to describe a point where something is no longer worth watching. That phrase is 'jumped the shark’, and has its origins in an episode of the tedious sit-com Happy Days. During the screening of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy I realised that there was room for a new phrase with a similar meaning, and that phrase is ‘switched the windscreen wipers on'. →